While Backup and Restore (Windows 7) creates viable and fantastically compatible hard drive images, various flaws and limitations with the Windows Rescue/Recovery disks render it basically unusable ...

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So I'm migrating from XP to 7x64 and spent the last week installing all my apps and games. Yesterday something went wrong and Windows wouldn't boot up, so I rebooted and it went into the Safe Recovery ...

The operating system's built-in safety net can be a quick and easy way to recover from a PC problem, but it too can fail. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff ...

If you have been using the Windows operating system for a while, you may have occasionally run into problems on your PC from time to time. Most of these problems ...

Microsoft’s restore point feature is a great safety net if something goes wrong with your PC. It allows you to revert your system back to a previous state, immediately providing a solution to any ...

Windows Registry or simply registry is a repository that stores low-level configurations and settings associated with the Windows operating system and its various programs. It’s one of those system ...

Some Windows users, when they try to perform System Restore on their Windows 11/10 device, might encounter the error code 0x8007045b. This post offers the most ...

System Restore is a long-standing feature on Windows 11. Its purpose is to create snapshots of the computer's current working state and save them as "restore points" when specific events are triggered ...

Making a full system image backup preserves not only your files, but Windows and all its settings as well. Here are the best free Windows backup and recovery tools with step-by-step instructions. When ...